Reading the shelf…
Gatorade is a leading brand in the sports drinks category, known for its hydration-focused products designed to support athletic performance. The brand offers a variety of products, including the Gatorade Thirst Quencher and Gatorade Zero, which are formulated with electrolytes and carbohydrates to enhance fluid absorption and retention. Gatorade's products are popular among athletes for their ability to maintain hydration and energy levels during and after exercise.
Brand Power (0-100) blends four shelf signals. Price position is shown below for context · a value↔premium read, not part of the score.
carried in 12 of 24 Bay Area grocers. how many stores stock the brand.
73 products in the catalog. how deep the product line is (saturating).
spans 4 categories. how many categories the brand plays in (saturating).
each bar is the % of that category's SKUs that are Gatorade (full bar = 100% of the shelf), grouped by department.
the brands crowding the same categories as Gatorade · photographed shelf-mates first, then brands stocked beside it at the same grocers, then same-category rivals citywide.
closest to Gatorade in what it makes — matched on product name, category & description across the whole catalog, wherever they’re sold. Not who it competes with on the shelf.
every Gatorade product in stock, cheapest first.







































Bay Area grocers where neither the digital catalog nor our shelf photos show Gatorade· but the shelf it belongs on is already there, ranked by fit. Fit blends category coverage, rival presence, price-band match, and openness to independents at this scale; weigh the footprint chips and route notes against it · a 7-door chain and a single great shop are different prizes. Our capture is partial, so a widely-distributed brand may already be carried through channels we don’t index.
Lead with Gatorade Thirst Quencher, Fruit Punch · its most-distributed SKU (8 doors) in Sports Drinks, the biggest opening. The closest open door is Sprouts Farmers Market · 1 rival already on that shelf.
~9% average share on the shelves it competes on. how dominant it is where it shows up.
priced above 33% of same-category rivals. where it sits on price vs category peers · context, not scored into Brand Power.
36 storefronts across 12 grocers carry it · tap a pin to open the store.
already on that shelf: bodyarmor
absence = seen in neither the grocer's digital catalog nor our shelf photos (90 days); assortments move. fit reads the shelf, not the buying office — see route notes.
Bay Area stores already carrying Gatoradethat meaningfully merchandise other categories it sells but isn't in here yet · ranked by open categories. A door already won, with room on adjacent shelves.
open here: Alkaline Water, Protein Bars, Purified Water
open here: Alkaline Water, Protein Bars, Purified Water
open here: Alkaline Water, Bubble Bath & Additives, Protein Bars
open here: Alkaline Water, Protein Bars, Purified Water
open here: Alkaline Water, Protein Bars, Purified Water
open here: Protein Bars, Purified Water
open = the store meaningfully carries that category (real depth, not a token SKU) and Gatorade sells it elsewhere but has no SKU here.